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In 20xx, one day, retirement office gate.
Fang Aiju, who is after 60, has also reached retirement age, and he rushed to the retirement office to catch the last bus before closing today. Only to see the office sister handed over a table, said to do a retiree situation investigation on the spot.
He must have a clear look, good fellow, now the investigation is so up to date? Net is a question like "What do you do if you have kidnapped your son-in-law" and "whether the elderly are lying next to each other when they fall to the ground".
In the end, I have seen the wind and waves, the old house has filled out the form three times five divided by two, and I am looking forward to it, and the good era of legal lying flat is finally coming.
That's the opening scene of Retirement Simulator, and after I played it, I found out that I was cheated. This game, which is known as a simulation of retirement, which is the boring daily life of a sixty-year-old man, is simply a middle-aged and elderly version of Joker to start again.
And it is estimated that the protagonist Joker in P5, who is known as the "world's first", is not so colorful in old age...
01
The protagonist had a dream the night he returned from the retirement formalities.
In the dream, he recalled the magnificent wishes of his youth. Although he couldn't do anything, dreaming of the first place, he once thought that the world was so big and went everywhere to see.
Now that there is finally time to achieve it, the question is, where to start?
After moving bricks all my life, it is really a bit uncomfortable to suddenly idle now. It is said that middle-aged and elderly people have money and time, but they have no energy. The day is short, but there are many options in front of the old house. He can only do one thing a day, either doing housework, or going out to play or learning something, or spending a day on the couch.
Although time jumps back and forth between enough and not enough, any action will bring about a corresponding improvement - surfing the Internet, playing chess to exercise thinking... Since the hexagonal warrior is not worthy, it is still okay to be a "partial warrior".
Does it smell like a coop system? That's right, since it's a middle-aged and elderly Joker, there's no "coop" system. After all, Joker's credo in life is to step on nine... Ah no, warm hearted. Responsive to partners in the community.
The coop system in P5 can enhance the goodwill of various characters
Like P5's coop, old houses will unlock important items or skills after helping others. However, while being helpful, don't forget that "Joker" is old, not a Joker who is still alive and well after a day of shopping.
The game uses a relatively abstract mechanism to realistically reproduce the state of retirees: as long as any of the three attributes of energy, health, and mentality are not good, it is not difficult to do anything.
Substandard attributes result in a low success rate
Especially when it comes to energy, many things will consume the energy of the old house. After all, the cat at home will not remind him that "he is tired today, go to bed." Unlike the little young man who is obviously not sleepy but is forced to sleep, Uncle Fang is really tired.
Once there is no energy to move forward, the old house must spend at least a day to recuperate. As for how to rest, middle-aged and elderly Joker is also full of tricks, bathing, sleeping, watching live broadcasts... It really can't be solved by drinking some wine.
Of course, in addition to energy, the two values of the old house's body and mentality will also affect the success rate of various actions, and it is necessary to weigh the proportion of rest and action, otherwise what to do is half the work.
As we all know, a qualified Joker should also be an experienced time management instructor.
In the "Middle-aged and Elderly Joker Formation Diary", there is one more thing that must not be ignored, that is: money.
The shyness of the pocket of a man who has half a leg entering the elderly is perfectly reproduced, and the little pocket money sent by his wife every month cannot meet the growing material and spiritual cultural needs.
Would you like a partner to go to the next restaurant? Sorry, the cheapest restaurant also costs hundreds of dollars; buy a set of VR backgammon, directly ask for 1w; go to the university for the elderly, each course has to spend money...
It is impossible not to be bad money, and you have to work and study in the past year, Joker calls the insider. At the end of the day, with the P5 clearance, the impression space is closed, and the real Joker has no place to swipe money.
You must understand, it is difficult to be a Joker, it is difficult to be a middle-aged and elderly Joker, and it is a male and female tear.
02
Retirement is not easy, players see in the eyes, but this does not mean that "Retirement Simulator" as a game, missing the most fundamental sense of achievement.
As a middle-aged and elderly Joker, the social circle of the old house is naturally quite extensive, from the elders who are still alive to the next three generations. The old house can not only have a good relationship with the family, but also have to mingle with the neighbors.
As long as the relationship between the two is good enough, they can unlock more interaction between them, gifts, dinner, after the favorability level reaches the standard, each person has a separate plot to watch, the person directly gives you a position, and the ultimate goal is to win the support of ta.
In daily life, the old house will encounter all kinds of people in various events, there are bad people and good people, according to the actions of the old house, it will produce completely different results.
Zuan Vincent...
If the person you meet is not a good stubble, then there are two hard ways to solve it in front of the old house, one is the fist is hard, and the other is the mouth hard.
The battles in the game are mainly presented in the form of DBG (Card Building Game). There is a different set of ideas for mouth cannon and fist punch, for example, I major in the "Xiao Zhi Zhi Zhi" school, but when it comes to punching, it is impossible to solve it by just relying on the mouth.
Purely from the perspective of gameplay, the mechanics of DBG in the game are relatively rich. When I first passed the level, I only unlocked all a quarter of the cards, and I already got several simple and playable genres, plus the game is still only the EA stage, and the cards added in the future update will be combined with how many fancy operations, the picture is too beautiful to think.
You know, Joker can fool the devil with one mouth, and the middle-aged and elderly Joker's mouth will naturally not fall behind. During the battle, the game will also trigger a time-limited reaction from time to time, and you can give the most suitable option according to the situation.
A sentence to the opposite side of the flickering lame, or the whole on the spot to touch the porcelain "rotten work" to make the opposite side confused, now think about it, outrageous is quite outrageous, but it is inexplicably very real.
There are so many dry goods just playing cards, and someone will say "I play "Retirement Simulator" just to play cards" in the future, I absolutely believe it.
Not to mention that "Retirement Simulator" also has backgammon, music games (square dance limited), and community building. How fulfilling retirement can be, presumably.
If the main line of the middle-aged and elderly Joker is to fight against the evil forces and live a good retirement life, then the wish of the middle-aged and elderly Joker will be the main line that runs through the game.
As Lao Fang said at the beginning of the game, "The goal is to rush out of Asia and go to the world!" With his pace across the globe, the pattern gradually opened up.
What is an international joker, that's it.
03
Under the cool skin, P5 discusses the legitimacy of the vigilante behavior of the strange bandit group in a self-imposed way to punish the evil, and shows it through various social issues based on Japan, such as school violence, creative plagiarism, underworld, capitalists...
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It's artistic and it's also real.
"Retirement Simulator" explores the topic of retirement with Chinese characteristics in its own playful way.
Although it is relatively shallow, the arrangement of some plot sections is also deliberate, but the life situation of the old house is indeed a symbol and epitome that represents a considerable number of people-
At home, the eldest son and his wife are unconscious, and there is a granddaughter who is in the key period of education; the second son has not been in contact for many years; the strong wife also has nasopharyngeal cancer, which is called "happiness cancer", and the disease is not big or small. The double pressure of economy and spirit will come out from time to time to harass.
Outside, the expectations of the good people, or the expectations of his community representatives. And the people who made the enemy attack him, saying that he colluded with the demolition company to demolish their community. As a result, no matter what events the old house participates in and what choices it makes, it will often fall into its own ideological struggle, or be wrapped up in the public opinion of the people around it.
The game brings the complicated side of the choice to life, but without putting too much pressure on the player. Because the laughter and anger in the middle have dissolved these complexities, and they are by no means escape.
People who have retired represent an image after a complete experience of social beatings, how to better maintain themselves and live out their meaning, I think this is the most close to life side of "Retirement Simulator".
The game is stuffed with interesting settings and Easter eggs that blend the sense of age and popularity, such as the introduction of the Internet surfing neta the lyrics of Park Shu's "New Boy", "Relax, windows 68"; there is a popular card collection called "Troll Cards"; and the doctor who sells fake drugs, clad in lightning, inexplicably like Professor Y...
Another example is that children can't play games now
When playing Retirement Simulator, you may be amused by the game for the next second, and then fall into some kind of big thinking that seems a little early now, but it is inevitable.
Retired people face all kinds of things every day, family, social, or the dreams of youth hidden in their hearts. These things will follow like tasks and events in the game.
They are entering a whole new game.
04
Finally, I would like to simplify the main plot of "Retirement Simulator": in this world, "Joker" is against black-hearted real estate developers, and the old house is an ordinary retired person on weekdays, and from time to time he acts as a "community representative" to do heroic deeds.
There is a special mechanism in the game ending, if the old house can get enough NPC support in the process, you can get better results at the end of the main line.
I still remember that in the ending of P5, Joker and his party, who had experienced hardships and stole many "secret treasures", finally stood in front of the evil gods condensed behind the crowd society.
They're going to beat it. Shaking the gods with the power of mortals, combined with the BGM of the scene, created an ultimate battle that made everyone goosebumps.
Behind the recognized high flame, what condenses this flame?
It is the most powerful force of The Joker. But it's not a mouthpiece to convince the devil, and it's not a multitude of Persona masks... None of them are right, they are bondages—the power that connects people.
The game's original intention to express through this force is to encourage each individual to take responsibility, rather than pinning his hopes on others and incarnating the evil of mediocrity.
In the side story of "Retirement Simulator", you can see that all the NPCs have vivid images. Some of them may have had an indifferent attitude towards the real estate group's demolition of their own communities.
Some people have lost the motivation to resist and give up on themselves...
But you will also see that the old house, which was once a marginal person in society, became a "community representative" by mistake, gradually transforming from passive acceptance to active running around, and finally uniting everyone and successfully driving away the seemingly unshakable real estate business group.
Isn't this also another form of "shaking the gods with the power of mortals"?
It is true that the essence of P5 is played clearly.
I think that's the most valuable thing about Retirement Simulator.
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